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MP Election 2009 | Attacking for the top post, is it the way it should be? April 15, 2009

Posted by Pupu Zou in Politics.
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India’s MP Election is in our hands now. The campaignings are in full swing. Innitially, the campaigning manners were very healthy and constructive. When the D-day is fast approaching, the campaigning method has totally changed froma healthy and constructive method to a personal attacks. I guess you guys all must be aware of what I am talking. The opposition leader LK Advani used to call the PM, the weakest PM India ever had. Recently, the PM brass back at the opp. leader saying ‘Iron man melted during hijack drama (kandahar)’.

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Slumdog Millionaire: Viewpoints and Moral February 5, 2009

Posted by Pupu Zou in Movie Review, Slumdog Millionaire.
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Cover of Slumdog Millionaire: A Novel

I rarely watch any movies if it is not the talk of the globe. This particular movie “Slumdog Millionaire” is the first and sole movie, which I watched from the beginning to end in the last three years. And this is my first time of writing a movie review.

After watching this movie, I thought I should write the moral of this movie from my own perspective. It may not be same from your viewpoints.

Before I start, let me highlight the behind people in this great movie.

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Chin, Mizo, Zomi or Kuki- Which is the most politically acceptable identity for the Zo? November 6, 2008

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The first and foremost thing to do is, properly digest the terms of the nomenclatures which were given to the Zo people by several great scholars of the world. Only then, we would be clear which one is acceptable. I am not trying to convince this or that is the most acceptable. It totally depends on you. Here are the terms:

ZOMI / MIZO

The term ‘Zomi‘ meaning, Zo+mi ‘Zo People’ is derived from the generic name ‘Zo’, the progenitor of the Zomis. Mizo is the reverse of Zomi. Pu T. Gougin quoted “it should be Zomi not Mizo, because when God created the universe. He starts with the earth and only then human being. Therefore, Zo should come first and mi should follow suit”

CHIN

As already mentioned, in Burma the Zomi are known as Chin. It has since become a matter of great controversy how this terminology originated. In this respect many scholars advanced different theories. B. S. Carey and H. N. Tuck asserted it to be a Burmese corruption of the Chins word “Jin” or “Jen” which means man. Prof. F. K. Lehman was of the view that the term might be from the Burmese word ‘Khyan” which means ‘basket’, saying,

“The term ‘Chin’ is imprecise. It is a Burmese word (khyan), not a Chin Word. It is homologous with the contemporary Burmese word meaning basket”.

Implied thus is that the basket carrying inhabitants of the Chin Hills bordering the plain Burmans are Chin.

KUKI

Probably the first recorded used of the name “Kuki” appeared in the History of Tripura as early as 1512 AD . During the reign of Tripura Raja Dhanya Manikya (around 1490 AD), it was pointed out that, wild race called Kukees live Thannangchi Forest of Tripura. Yet the origin of the word itself is most obscure. The colonial historians divided the Zomi under two names, i.e. the “Kuki” and the “Lushai”. This was clearly demonstrated in the writing of Rawlins. In his paper published in the Asiatic Research Vol. II, p.12 he called the people “Cucis” or “Mountaineers from Tipra” by adopting the name used by the Bengali and Assamese when referring to the Zomi of Chittagong Hill Trace and Tripura Hills. Colonel John Shakespeare clubbed them together and called them “the Lushai-Kuki Clans”.

After reading all this findings, I guess you are clear enough to decide which of the following Nomenclature is politically acceptable?

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